Healthy Food . . . Fresh Ingredients . . . Easy Recipes . . . & Musings from France
Risotto. Don’t let the TV chefs tell you it’s hard. It’s easy, does not require constant stirring and never add extra butter at the end. It’s creamy if you don’t over-cook it.
It has been a week of French challenges. First – the funny… We go to a conversation class every week. The idea is that the French speak English and the English / Americans speak French and the native speakers assist and correct the learners. The other night one of the students was telling a story … Continue reading…
No house photos this week. Mon mari has continued work on rendering the walls upstairs. Every time I go up to look there is more, not less, to be done. It might have something to do with his tap-tap-tapping all over the walls with the claw side of his hammer…. Something about having to chip … Continue reading…
It’s official. We have a wall! Mon mari still hasn’t figured out what he’s going to do with the ceiling – meaning, how he’s going to build it. All we know for sure is that it will be wood and have insulation between it and the roof. The thought of insulation makes me almost not … Continue reading…
Mon mari got to play with a big toy last week. He wanted to rent the little backhoe/digger that he used last year to dig the water trench. It wasn’t available. But the guy was very understanding…. and let him have the big one for the same price. And I can’t believe I didn’t get … Continue reading…
When I was growing up, my mother kept a tiny jar of pimentos in the fridge. She would carefully sprinkle a few on potato salad, or, maybe a jello salad. One minuscule jar would last months. Like the the little bottle of olive oil in the cupboard, I had no idea this was a food … Continue reading…
Asparagus, Tuna and Caper Risotto Mon mari gets out Friday. Twenty three days of lazing around a hospital, feeling good, having his toe tended, his feet rubbed and his every wish catered to by a bevy of young, mostly female, mostly attractive, French doctors and nurses, is far too long. It has apparently turned his … Continue reading…
You know how some things always ‘seem like a good idea at the time’? Tiling our kitchen counter and walls seemed like an excellent idea at the time. And it seems like an excellent idea now that it’s done. But, during the two weeks between laying the first tile and wiping off the last bit … Continue reading…